Talk:Upland moa

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DNA from foot/head?[edit]

Has there been any mentiation that Viable DNA was found in the remains, or if it is at least is in a place for presvervation? 68.222.134.159 (talk) 05:38, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on what you mean by "viable". Genetic studies have been done on all moa species.

Orphaned references in Upland moa[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Upland moa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Bunce":

From Moa: Bunce, M., et al. (2003)
From Haast's eagle: Bunce, M.; Szulkin, Marta; Lerner, Heather R. L.; Barnes, Ian; Shapiro, Beth; Cooper, Alan; Holdaway, Richard N. (2005). "Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Evolutionary History of New Zealand's Extinct Giant Eagle". PLoS Biology. 3 (1): e9. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030009. PMC 539324. PMID 15660162.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:49, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone find images which properly represent the bird in it's normal. head lowered. position[edit]

All of the images and the mounted skeleton show the initial, incorrect attitude of the moa's head and neck, according to the article. Wizodd0 (talk) 01:16, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That they probably held their necks horizontally in general doesn't mean they they were unable to lift the heads. So I wouldn't say the images are downright incorrect, they just don't show the habitual pose. I could imagine they would lift their heads when startled, or similar. See for example this cassowary [1], which the source compares with the moas. In any case, if free images showing horizontal necks could be found, it would of course be nice. FunkMonk (talk) 12:23, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]